In case of food: First. If it be an imitation of, or offered for sale under the distinctive name of, another article. Second. If it be labeled or branded so as to deceive or mislead the purchaser, or purport to be a foreign product when not so, or is an imitation in package or label of another substance of a previously established name, or if the contents of the package as originally put up shall have been removed in whole or in part and other contents shall have been placed in such package, or if it fail to bear a statement on the label in conspicuous letters of the quantity or proportion of any alcohol, morphine, opium, cocaine, heroin, alpha or betą eucaine, cannabis indica, chloral hydrate, or acetanilide, or any derivative or preparation of any such substances contained therein. Third. If in package form, and the contents are stated in terms of weight or measure, they are not plainly and correctly stated on the outside of package. Fourth. If the package containing it, or its label, shall bear any statement, design or device shall be false or misleading in any particular; Provided, That an article of food which does not contain any added poisonous or deleterious ingredients shall not be deemed to be adulterated or misbranded in the following cases: First. In the cases of mixtures or compounds which may be now, or from time to time hereafter, known as articles of food under their own distinctive names, and not an imitation of or offered for sale under the distinctive name of another article, if the name be accompanied on the same label or brand with a statement of the place where said article has been manufactured or produced. Second. In the case of articles labeled, branded or tagged, so as to plainly indicate that they are compounds, imitations or blends and the word "compound," "imitation," or "blend," as the case may be, is plainly stated in conspicuous letters on the package in which it is. offered for sale; Provided, That the term "blend," as used herein, shall be construed to mean a mixture of like substances, not excluding harmless coloring or flavoring ingredients used for the purpose of coloring or flavoring only; and, Provided, further, That nothing in this act shall be construed as requiring or compelling proprietors or manufacturers of proprietary foods which contain no unwholesome added ingredient to disclose their trade formulas, except in so far as the provisions of this act may require to secure freedom from adulteration or misbranding; Provided, also, That this act shall not apply to stocks of drugs and medicines on hand in this State on September 1st, 1907, until the first day of June, 1908. Sec. 6. That no dealer shall be prosecuted under the provisions of this act when he can establish a guaranty signed by the wholesaler, jobber, manufacturer or other party residing in the State of Florida from whom he purchases such articles to the effect that the same is not adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of this act, designating it. Said guaranty, to afford protection, shall contain the name and address of the party or parties making the sale of such articles to such dealer, and in such case the said party or parties shall be amenable to the prosecutions, fines and other penalties which would attach in due course to the dealer under the provisions of this act. Sec. 7. If, upon the trial of any person convicted under this act, it shall appear that any article of food, drug or liquor sold, kept or offered for sale by the person convicted is adulterated or misbranded, or is of a poisonous or deleterious character within the meaning of this act, the same shall be seized and destroyed by order of the court in such manner as the court may in the order direct. STATE LABORATORY. The enactment of the "Pure Food and Drug Law," with its necessary increase in analytical work, necessitated an increase in the size and facilities of the State Laboratory; which was not, previously to the passage of the law, sufficiently commodious, nor properly equipped, for the proper analytical work of the feed and fertilizer department. An addition of four properly designed and conveniently arranged rooms is now in course of construction, proper equipment ordered and apparatus designed. When complete (within the next sixty days), the Florida State Lab oratory will be equal in equipment and facilities to any state laboratory in the South, alike creditable to the State and the Agricultural Department. ANALYTICAL WORK, 1907. The following analyses were made during the year: The average composition of the 156 samples of complete fertilizer was: Ammonia .4.2 per cent. .6.74 per cent. Available Phosphoric Acid....7.25 per cent. The average "State value" of the 156 samples of complete fertilizer was $29.32 per ton. The average price was $33.00 per ton, an excess over State values of $3.68 per ton. We find the price of these goods varied from $40.00 per ton, with a State value of $36.30 per ton; an excess over State values of $3.70; with a plant food content of 21 per cent, or 420 pounds of high grade plant food per ton; at an average cost of 9 1-2 cents per pound; to $22.00 per ton, with a State value of $13.90, an excess of $8.10 over State values, with a plant food content of but 200 pounds of cheap materials, at an average cost of 11 cents per pound, with an average value of 6.95 cents per pound We find the 219 official samples of fertilizers were divided into: 156 Samples of complete fertilizer. 63 samples of fertilizer material. 219 Total. The 156 samples of complete fertilizers drawn throughout the State, by the State Chemist, or Assistant Chemists, have the following average composition: Excess .20 per cent. above guarantee. We find complete fertilizers exceeding the guarantee .20 per cent (or 20 points)) as follows: In ammonia.......... 64 samples, or 41 per cent. In available phos. acid 123 samples, or 79 per cent. Ir potash, (K20)................... 76 samples, or 49 per cent. ....... Deficiency .20 per cent. below guarantee. There was a deficiency greater than .20 per cent. (20 points), as follows: In ammonia.... .....20 samples, or 13 per cent. In available phos. acid..14 samples, or 9 per cent. In potash, (K20)....................37 samples, or 24 per cent. ........ The economy of the high-grade goods being apparent, I again earnestly recommend the use of the high-grade mixed goods as the most economical, and again quote statements made in former reports as follows: "The brands may be classified as to valuation as follows: Low grade, valuing at $17 or less... $14.43 18.84 26.36 The composition, selling price and valuation of the average brand of each group appears below. A survey of this table indicates that: 1. The proportion of nitrogen increases in regular graduations from group to group; that of phosphoric acid is fairly uniform in the lower and upper grades, and increases a half per cent in the medium grade, while the potash increases one per cent in the medium and six per cent in the high grade brands, as compared with the lower ones. 2. The low grade goods carry over seven times as much phosphoric acid as they do nitrogen, and over three times as much phosphoric acid as they do potash. These proportions become, roughly, four and two and one-half in the medium grades. In the high-grade fertilizer there is but two and one-half times as much phosphoric acid as nitrogen, and rather more potash than phosphoric acid. The latter grade more closely resembles the proportions commonly present in plants than do either of the other grades. 3. The medium grade goods, for an eighth advance in price over the cost of the low grade brands, offer a fifth more plant food and nearly a third more commercial value. "The high-grade fertilizers, for but little more than a third advance in price over the cost of the low-class goods, furnish two-thirds more plant food and five-sixths more commercial value." Those consumers requiring the low grade goods, the "8-2-2" of the cotton and corn planter, I would say purchase your acid phosphates as such; also your kainits, cotton ceed meal, blood, bone or tankage, make your own mixtures, using the proper amount of each to give you the desired percentage. The excess in cost of mixed low grade goods is excessive. Their purchase is not economical, in |